Immense wealth and its lavish expenditure fill the great house with all that can please the eye or tempt the taste. Here appetite not food is the great desideratum.

Immense wealth and its lavish expenditure fill the great house with all that can please the eye or tempt the taste. Here appetite not food is the great desideratum.
Frederick Douglass

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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart and he is relieved by them only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
- Frederick Douglass
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- Frederick Douglass

Immense wealth and its lavish expenditure fill the great house with all that can please the eye or tempt the taste. Here appetite not food is the great desideratum. Frederick Douglass

Immense wealth and its lavish expenditure fill the great house with all that can please the eye or tempt the taste. Here appetite not food is the great desideratum.
Frederick Douglass